Wong v. City of Stockton
Plaintiff, Warren Wong, individually and as trustee of the Wong Family Trust (hereafter Wong), appeals from the judgment of dismissal after the trial court sustained the demurrer of defendants, City of Stockton and the Stockton Redevelopment Agency (hereafter the City) to Wongs complaint for inverse condemnation, without leave to amend.
The complaint alleges that Wong owns two parcels of property, one had a building on it, the other one had a paved parking lot. As part of defendants plan to redevelop the downtown area of the city, defendants began condemning certain properties but discovered that process was too costly. In an effort to reduce their costs, defendants began demolishing the improvements on the targeted properties after issuing building code violations and recording Notices to Abate, which alleged that the code violations rendered the structures unsafe. In furtherance of that scheme, the City demolished Wongs building and parking lot.
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